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Mar 2021
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Yemen is suffering the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, a conflict that has killed some 100,000 people since 2015 and left 24m in peril. Now it’s dragging countries across the region into its vortex. How did we get here? Exactly how are Saudi Arabia and Iran involved? Will the election of Joe Biden make a difference? Arthur Snell talks to Laura Cretney, a PhD student at Durham University who works with charities in the region, to disentangle a nightmare confrontation between Houthi rebels, the Yemeni government and multiple foreign interests. 


  • “For many young men, the best and most lucrative way to provide for their families is to take up arms.”
  • “This isn’t just a proxy conflict between Saudi and Iran. There are a LOT of regional rivalries here.”


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